pass of Copauo. Herc are from five to ten feet of water; but the entrance is difficult to strangers. There are no populous large towns in Texas; but there a1·e some considerable flourishing villages, among which 1 the following arc worthy of notice. Nacogdoches is one hundred miles west of Nacoitoches, on Red River. HarrisbUl'gh is on Galveston Bay, burnt by Santa .Anna. Velasco is at the mouth of the Brazos; Brazoria is twenty miles up the river, and Columbia is ten miles still farther up. Fifty miles higher on the same river, in San Fclippe de Austin-burnt. Forty miles above this stands Wash- ington, a name dear to all the world. On the Colo- rado is Matagorda at its mouth, and Mina two hun- dred miles higher up. Texana is on the Navidad, near its confluence with La Dacca. Thirty miles up the Guadaloupe is Victoria, and fifty miles higher is Gonzales. 'fwenty-five miles west of Victoria is La Bahia, on the river San Antonio, and eighty mile'> above, near its source, is the town of San Antonio, memorable as the theatre of several bloody conflicts between the .Mexicans and their rivals.-Of the towns above named much might be said in way of commenda- tion, as relates to the country in which they are planted, particularly of San Antonio and of Mina on the Colorado. These towns are handsomely located, are healthy, and the adjoining country highly pic- turesque and beautiful.
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